Former DHS Chief Warns Phone Deal Could Hurt National Security

[Purveyor]

Source: The Hill

By Julian Hattem - 09/29/14 10:22 AM EDT

Former Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff is wading into a battle over control of the little-known system used to route calls to millions of phone numbers in the U.S.

In a 44-page report, Chertoff’s consultant firm warned the Federal Communications Commission on Monday that a bid to allow a subsidiary of the Swedish telecom company Ericsson to run the system was “insufficient in both scope and specificity” and could hamper spy agencies.

The problems “are serious,” the firm added.

If one of the country’s seven centers for assigning numbers were compromised “telephone calls and text messages might not be completed, many search warrants and subpoenas might not be served correctly, and our system for prioritizing communications in a national emergency might not function,” it claimed.

For more than a decade, the Virginia firm Neustar has been in charge of managing the number routing system, which is necessary to connect calls and send text messages to more than 650 million American and Canadian phone numbers. The system allows people to retain their phone number, even after switching carriers, such as Verizon or AT&T.

Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/technology/219163-former-sec-chertoff-intervenes-in-phone-system-standoff

[PeoViejo]

1. That's why they don't have my phone number.

which I anonymously change on a regular basis.

Fuck them.

[JDPriestly]

6. How do you do that?

[PeoViejo]

12. ...

[Autumn]

2. "Chertoff’s consultant firm" is that the fuckers private business?

Fuck him.

[billhicks76]

9. Nazi War Profiteer

He fleeces the US public by spying on you and recording everything you have ever said and done. And I believe he had foreknowledge of 911 and not only helped suppress that info but aiding in facilitating the attacks.

[closeupready]

3. Right, how is the CIA/NSA supposed to spy on everyone

when control of the medium lies outside the jurisdiction of the US? Can't have that in a free world, can we.

[questionseverything]

4. more from the article

Last month, the FBI, Drug Enforcement Agency and Secret Service warned the FCC — which is overseeing the bid — that federal officials needed to be able to access the phone routing system to track criminals without the company’s knowledge.

“Law enforcement cannot afford to have a lapse in this vital service,” the agencies claimed.

///// without the company’s knowledge.////////////

in one breath they say they can't serve warrants properly in another they admit they are doing it w/o the companies knowledge...which would mean to me there has been no warrant served

btw* mass warrants are illegal

[snooper2]

5. They are talking about tracking individual TN and the owning carrier, LRN and OCN

CALEA intercepts happen on the carriers network, not via Nuestar LOL. Nuestar doesn't handle the media and signaling for calls...

I query the Nuestar database almost daily...

[billhicks76]

10. It's All About Drug War $$$

LEGALIZE all drugs. All of it. Take the criminals out of business...and we don't mean drug dealers.

[truth2power]

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Can someone please tell Skeletor to just STFU?

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

8. I think he did a heck of a jobs, eh Brownie?

[billhicks76]

11. Chertoff Is Evil

They all are.

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

13. SKELETOR will rise up on Halloween Eve, and SKELETOR will find a new body that isn't such a tip-off

to criminality and corruption. George Clooney would be a major upgrade!

[billhicks76]

15. Never Seen Darker Eyes

John Ashcroft and Netenyahu were clues though.

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

16. John "Mr. Cover that plaster!" Ashcroft. Another f-ing lunatic and puritanical prick. n/t

[AtheistCrusader]

14. That's just one tool in their arsenal.

Have a look at this doohickey.

http://www.cellebrite.com/mobile-forensics